Einar Iversen

Biography

Iversen was born on 6 June 2001 in Bergen, Norway to a dentist mother and an HR manager father. He grew up watching his older brother Jakob play football and started training in first grade. He played regularly for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons, By January 2020, he had started three Premier League 2 games. He sustained an ACL injury early in the 2020/21 season that required surgery. Nine months later, he pulled his hamstring, requiring another five weeks of rest; he subsequently tore it again, this time seriously enough to require an operation in February 2022. He only played five games in the 2020/21 season. He returned to the pitch in January 2023 as a late sub against West Ham United's U-21s.